My primary experience with Randy Jackson was watching American Idol this season for the first time. While his silly looking and consistently coordinated glasses/shirt combinations intrigued me, I was never quite sure what he was bringing to the table. Other than the ‘Dawg Pound’ and I think we all could do without that.

Mariah Carey, on the other hand, has a little more faith in Randy’s taste. She is hiring both his name and his expertise to help her on tour this summer.

Mariah Carey is tapping a longtime friend - American Idol judge Randy Jackson - to help her mix things up a bit on her Adventures of Mimi tour, which kicks off in August. "With this tour, I'm going to be working on some different arrangements for some of the older songs, to kind of like, give it a little more life to them," Carey recently told the Associated Press. "That's not to say they're going to sound totally different and to freak anybody out… (but) I love re-singing songs to different music."

I mostly just hope that Randy Jackson sits in the front row of every show judging Mariah, constantly judging, and shushing the crowd after every song so that he can throw in his two nonsensical cents.

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